INTRODUCTION TO NURSING CHAPTER 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2024
What is a Description of nursing's role, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA) - ANSWER It
is the role of nursing to provide a caring relationship that facilitates health and healing
When a nurse helps a patient make an informed decision about his/her own health and life, what
nursing role is being perfomed? - ANSWER Advocate
What is used by the nurse to identify the patient's healthcare needs and strengths and to establish and
carry out a plan of care to meet those needs? - ANSWER Nursing Proccess
What Organization was founded 1899, and was the first international organization of professional
women. - ANSWER ICN (International Council fo Nurses)
Founded in the late 1800, this professional orgainization was for registered nurses in the United States. -
ANSWER ANA (American Nurses Association)
What are laws established in each state in the United States to regulate the practice of nursing. -
ANSWER Nurse Practice Act
One of the major guidelines for nursing practice and integrates both the art and science of nursing -
ANSWER Nursing Process
What nursing advocate elevated the status of nursing to a respected occupation, improved the quality of
nursing care, and founded modern nursing education? - ANSWER Florence Nightingale
What development had the greatest influence on the development of nursing as a profession since the
1950s? - ANSWER Nursing practice was broadened to include practice in a wide variety of healthcare
settings.
Who established the Red Cross in the states in 1882? - ANSWER Clara Barton
What is the most definitions of nursing? - ANSWER The nurse as a person who nourishes, fosters, and
protects and who is prepared to take care of sick, injured and aged people.
Who was Mary Elizabeth Mahoney? - ANSWER America's First African American nurse to graduate from
a school of nursing.
The founder of public health nursing. - ANSWER Lillian Wald
Provided nursing care to soldiers during the Civil War and worked for the women's movement. -
ANSWER Sojourner Truth
Was a pioneering crusader for the reform of the treatment of the mentally ill. - ANSWER Dorothea Dix
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